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W. A. MARTIN. MACHINE FOR FOLDING SEIDLITZ POWDBRS.

No. 10,357; Patented Dec; 2.0, 1853.

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\VILLIAM A. MARTIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO XVATSON & "ANZANT.

MACHINE FOR FOLDING SEDLITZ-POWDERS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 10,357, dated December 20, .1853.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, WILLIAM A. MARTm,

of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and" State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a new and useful Machine for Folding andCutting Paper Con- Figure 1, is a plan; Fig. 2 is a sectional;

elevation, and Fig. 3, is an elevation through the racks and p1n1ons 011 the righthand end. The other figures are separately.

referred to and the like marks of reference designate the same parts in all the figures.

The object of my invention is to fold paper containing. sedlitz or other powder, which powder is to be deposited on the paper in parcels containing the proper amount by any proper means, either by weighing out the powder or by placing on the papers as they are on the machine, a

board containing holes which are in the proper place and, of the size to contain the requisite amount'of powder, to be scraped over the board. The machine is then made to fold the paper in the size and shape required and one paper cut from the other and folded across the ends ready-for boX- ing in the ordinary manner. I

a, is a frame supported on a frame or table and having cross bars I), supporting blocks 0, which are of the size required for the folded paper. 1

61, is a bar on center shafts or spindles 1.

e, is a bar supported on center spindles 2,-

and f, is a third bar similarly supported on center spindles 3, these spindles are supported in journals g, g, and h.

i, z, are clamps at each end between the bars (Z and f, constructed as shown in larger size in Figs. 4 and 5. These clamps are made handed, and attached to the outer face of the cross bars 25, by screws 8 and 10, the clamps having slots that allow of their rising vertically on the screws; the screw 8, has a lever 5, with a pin 9, in a cross slotin the clamp, by which the clamp is either raised up or depressed to hold the ends of I a strip of paper slightly wider than from the outsides of the bars (Z and e, which paper is secured in place by the overhanging parts of the clamp, as at 6 and 7, clamping the ends of the paper into the top of thecross bars 25.

The bars cl, andce, are given a half rotation by means of pinions 11 12, and-15, operated on by a rack let on the upper side of a slide 76, that is between the journals 9 and slides on a bed formed between them.

strip extending from one clamp 2', to the other is by them secured at the ends. The operator then places the powder to be inclosed in the paper, over the center ofeaeh block 0, and then depresses the lever m, which moves the slide is and rack 14, and rotates the pinion 12, which rotates the pin-c ion 11, turningthe folding bar (Z, and paper over, and onto, the blocks a, (the blocks 0, and folder (Z being hollowed so as not to force out the powder)- The length of the rack 14L is such that it disengages from the pinion' 12, when the folder cl, has come down onto the blocks 0, the other endhav- .ing previously taken thepinion 15, rotates that so as to fold the paper over onto the bar f, the other edge having previously been brought over by the bar (Z, this edge incloses the same, and the three thicknesses of paper are held onto the bar f, by means of pins 19, which project sufficiently from the surface of the bar f, the bar 6, being provided with holes to pass over the pins. The pins 19 are not required, except where three or four.

The workman then gives the bar f, a semirotation which carries a with it the paper making the last fold in the form shown in Fig. 7 inclosing the powder., '110 It Will be seen that the point 7 of the clamp holds the paper for the second fold and on the bar f, rising the paper is cut or broken at this point, the main body of the clamp still holding the ends of the lower part of the paper. But the spring of the paper forming the upper folds would prevent the apparatus hereafter described from cutting off andfolding back the paper for each powder. To obviate this I place a hooked cutter point 20 shown full size in Fig. 6, in the middle of the length of the paper, onto which the fold is forced by the bar f, the point 20 passing into a recess in the bar f, and its hooked point holding the folds of paper down in place, preventing their springing up edgewise. The points 19 being smooth, draw out onthrowing the bar f, back by raising the lever n.

p, p, are bars jointed at 21, to the frame a, carrying a bar or bars 9, which by nuts and washers sustain cutter blades 8, that are on a line to pass down between triangular blades I o, supported by bars across between the,

frames a.

r, r, are blocks passing downon each end of and close to the blocks 0.

The continuous fold of paper containing the powder running over blocks 0, from one endof the machine to the other is cut off in sections for each powder by the attendant drawing down the frame 22, the cutters is, entering bet-ween the standing blades 1;, and outside the blades u, at each end divides the paper and the further downward motion of the frame causes the blocks 1, to bend the paper down against and at the sides of the ends of the blocks 11, leaving each powder and its inclosing paper ready to be taken off and putinto boxes afterraising the frame p, out of the way.

It will be evident that a greater number of powders than four (the number shown). may be formed in a row and that several rows may be placed parallel with each other, one row being shown by the second range of extended cuts off and folds back all the papers by its downward motion. It will be seen that the center cutters s, are made narrower to clear the point 20, and also that the pins 19 entering between the standing blades 1), only leave a mark where the cutting is eflected. The centers of the folding bars it will be seen being on the line or nearly so of the top edge of the bars next blocks a, only have a turning motion around this point, hence the folding operationon the paper. The clamps 2', being raised by turning up the handles 5 or by any similar means the parts are ready to receive strips of paper for another operation, and the small ends of paper left beneath the clamps will require to be removed every three or four motions of the machines.

\Vhat I desire to'secure by Letters Patent 1. I claim the bars cl, 6, and f, moved by the means herein shown or any analogous device, for folding the paper in the manner specified.

2. I claim the frame p,'with its cutters s, and blocks r, in combination with the beds on which the paper lies, to divide the papers containing the powder and fold the ends against the ends of the blocks a, as described 1 and shown. H

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this fifth day of May one thousand eight-hundred and fifty three.

WILLIAM A. MARTIN;

IVit-nesses V A LEBIUEL IV. SERRELL, THOMAS G. HAROLD. 

